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Original Title:	The Sweetest Fig
ISBN:	0395673461 (ISBN13: 9780395673461)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award for Grades 3-8 (1996)

The Sweetest Fig Hardcover | Pages: 32 pages

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Title	:	The Sweetest Fig
Author	:	Chris Van Allsburg
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 32 pages
Published	:	1993 by Houghton Mifflin Company
Categories	:	Childrens. Picture Books. Fantasy. Fiction

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"These figs are very special," the woman whispered. "They can make your dreams come true." -- Thus Monsieur Bibot, the cold-hearted dentist, was given two ordinary-looking figs as payment for extracting a tooth from an old woman's mouth. Monsieur Bibot refused to believe such nonsense and proceeded to eat one of the figs for a bedtime snack. Although it was possibly the finest, sweetest fig he had ever tasted, it wasn't until the next morning that Monsieur Bibot realized it indeed had the power to make his dreams come true. While dragging his poor dog, Marcel, out for his walk, he discovered that his strange dream from the night before was becoming all too real. Determined to make good use of the second fig, Monsieur Bibot learns to control is dreams. But can he control Marcel? Once again Chris Van Allsburg explores the mysterious territory between fantasy and reality in an uncanny tale that will intrigue readers of all ages.

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Bibot the dentist is a fussy greedy man, he lives in an apartment in Paris France with his small white dog Marcel, who he constantly mistreats. One day an old woman walks into Monsieur Bibots office complaining of a toothache, hoping to make some extra francs he agrees to help her regardless of the fact that she does not have an appointment. After gladly removing her tooth with some pliers the old woman tells the dentist that she does not have any money to pay for her procedure but that she has

In his book The Sweetest Fig, Chris Van Allsburg tells the story of a dentist named Monsieur Bibot and his dog, Marcel. One day he receives a patient who needs a tooth removed, and he is horrified to find out that she has no money to pay him for his services once he is done. However, she provides him with two figs that she claims will make all his dreams come true. That night he eats one before bed and wakes up the next morning to have what he dreamt that night come true - just like the lady

Very unsettling and creepy. I wondered where it is going with the story at first then it ends up just giving me the willies when I finished. I am not sure I was so unsettled by this book upon first reading and a little child. Something made me not like it but I was not so unerved I don't think.

The text tells a story about a man who is not very kind and undeserving on magical figs. The text flows with the illustrations and the ending was definitely unpredictable. A dentist was working one day when an old lady came in moaning about a toothache. When he fixed the tooth the lady could only pay in figs, but she claimed that they were magical figs that could make dreams come true. The dentist scoffed at this but took them home anyways. That night he ate one before bed and the next day he

In his book The Sweetest Fig, Chris Van Allsburg tells the story of a dentist named Monsieur Bibot and his dog, Marcel. One day he receives a patient who needs a tooth removed, and he is horrified to find out that she has no money to pay him for his services once he is done. However, she provides him with two figs that she claims will make all his dreams come true. That night he eats one before bed and wakes up the next morning to have what he dreamt that night come true - just like the lady

One of the pleasures of reading a Van Allsburg book is finding the bull terrier in his amazing illustrations...sometimes he's a plush toy, or a pull toy, or just a fleeting figure on a busy street scene. What fun to finally have a bull terrier play a major role! Marcel's owner is an insufferable man, a dentist who seems to enjoy inflicting pain...when a patient cannot pay, she gives him two of the sweetest figs in the world, and tells him whatever he dreams after eating the fig will come to

The illustrations alone, are worth the read! Bibot is not only a dentist, but a mean guy. The ending!!! Oh my! Lesson: control your dreams when eating sweet figs? Be kind to your pets? Dont look a gift fig in the mouth?This fulfills the popsugar reading challenge for book with a fruit or vegetable in the title.